Gloria Duplex - Production Progam

Production Staff
Director.
Musical Director
Choreographer/Movement
Coach
Set Design
Costume Design
Assistant Director/Stage Manager.
Light Board Operator..
Lighting Design
Spot Light Operator.
Fight Choreographer..
Vocal Coach
Technical Director.
Technical Coordinator
Assistant Technical Director.
Props Master..
Set Construction
Set Dressing
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A. Vastine Stabler
M ichael King
Bess Peterson
K C Schmidt
.Jane Klemens
Donna McN ider
;
David Crutcher
Tim Laruda
Dana Gilliland
Bobby Funk
Jill Balch
David Loggins
Russ Fredrikis
Timothy J. McGuire
Phillip Anderson
.Jennifer Kelley, Vincent Simons, Jason Kennah, Ian Sampson
Phillip Anderson, Michelle Best, Liz Best, Jason Kennah
......................... Kiersten Moore and Janet Wocken
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Costume Assistants
Kitten Paradise Logo
Pu bIici ty
Southern PlayWorks Brochure Layout.
Artistic Director for Southern PlayWorks
Assistants to the Artistic Director.
House Managers
Play
Presents
Angele Mete, Randi Bourdages and Gary Ivory
.Janet Wocken
··.····· ..H elen Hays
Tom Woffard
Vastine Stabler
Stephanie Collins and Donna McNider
Edie Moore and Nancy Hallmark
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Jeff Samford, John Hallum, Jessica Tyra, Cheryl Hall, LaDonna Smith, Ben Burford and
Dyna- Type, Delores Hydock, Monty Stabler Galleries, Jack Reiss, Rebecca Wells, Joyce
Whitten, Ba~bara Davis, Bragg Scroggins and the entire UAB Town and Gown Staff, Billy
Sheldon and the UAB Department of Theatre office staff, The Birmingham Festival Theatre
Board of Directors, Helen Hays and UAB Media Relations, The Birmingham News, The
Birmingham Post-Herald, The Montgomery Advertiser, Black & White, Kaleidoscope, UAB
Report, WZZK-FM, WBRC-TV, WBMG-TV, WTTO-TV, WAPI-FM, WMJJ-AM, WBHMFM, WYDE-AM and WAPI-FM.
an exotic worship service for theatre
by
REBECCA WELLS
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Carl would like to thank Alicia Yelverton, his true "buddy soul leaf' .•
Donna M.-T. would like to thank Molly Stevens and John Marbury, Jr.
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From Michelle: Thanks to my group, Morris, Bess, Jane, Mom, Dad, Joe, •
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especially Liz, and everyone else who helped make this transition from
Michelle to "Gloria" a smooth one. I love you all. Donna, Carl and
.,
Sharon - I couldn't have done it without you .•
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Rebecca Wells
Presents
by Rebecca Wells
An exotic workshop service for the Theatre
First produced by the Empty Space Theatre, Seattle, Washington
under the direction of Burke Walker
Cast
Gloria Duplex
Bud Joseph
Rev. Mother Willie Mae Felix
Lu Grem illion
Michelle Best
Carl Dean
Donna Thornton Marbury
Sharon Blane
The Paradise
Playboys
Piano
Drums
Guitar, Mando lin
Electric Bass
Fiddle
M ichael King
Maury Levine
.1ason Bailey
Peter Ban ish
Rebekah Stober
The play takes place in New Orleans at the Kitten Paradise Temple Lounge
on the edge of the French Quarter
There will be a twelve (12) minute intermission
Also this summer
Tempered
at Southern
PlayWorks:
Steel Cross by Lee Shackleford
At Bell Theatre
July 17-August2
Oh, Mr. Faulkner, Do You Write? starring John Maxwell July 27,
At UAB Town and Gown, Clark Theatre
Co. Aytch: Memoirs of a Confederate Soldier, Starring Bobby Funk, August 3
At UAB Town and Gown, Clark Theatre
Rebecca Wells is a novelist, actor and playwright who grew up on Bayou
Roberts in Central Louisiana, where French Catholic Louisiana meets Northern
Baptist Louisiana. Her first novel, Little Altars Evelywhere, won the Western
States Book Award for Fiction in 1992 and was a Literary Guild Alternate
Selection and Editor's Choice.
A reprint of Little Altars Evelywhere was
published by HarperCollins to coincide with the publication of her second novel,
Divine Secrets of the Yo-Yo Sisterhood, which has been described as "a
deliciously entertaining and ultinlately, deeply moving novel about the complex
bonds between a mother and her daughter."
To quote Tom Robbins, author of
Even Cowgirls get the Blues, Divine Secrets is "the sweet and sad and goofY
monkey dance of life, as performed by a bevy of unforgettable Southern Belles in a
verdant garden of moonlit prose. Poignantly coo-coo, the Ya-Yas (and their Petite
Ya-Yas) will prance, priss, ponder and party their way into your sincere affection."
Divine Secrets of the Yo-Yo Sisterhood was released in paperback by
HarperPerennial in April, 1997.
An accomplished actress, Wells has perfl)rnled in theaters throughout the
United States. Variety has called her acting "luminous ... funny, touching and
important."
As a playwright, Wells' play Splittin' Hairs (for which she also
created the leading role), was nominated for Showtime Televisions' Excellence in
American Theater Award. Her play, Gloria Duplex (for which she created the
title role) was hailed by the Seattle Post-IntelligenceI' as "one of the glories of the
decade."
A seasoned lecturer and creativity coach, Ms. Wells has taught her
workshop, "Learning to Compost: Writing nom the Heart"
throughout the
cOlUltry. Her teleplays include scripts for ABC and CBS. The subject of a West
Coast PBS documentary, Wells has received numerous awards including the
Washington
States Arts Conmussion
Playwright Fellowship.
Seattle Arts
Commission Original Works Fellowship, King County Fiction Fellowship, and
the Artists Tmst of Washington Fellowship in Literature, as well as the Artists
Tmst Fellowship Fellowslup in Theatre.
Ms. Wells lives on an island in Wasllington State's Puget Sound with her
husband and their cocker sp31uel, Lulu. She is currently at work on a novel based
on her play, Splittin' Hairs. Her fervent wish is to return to the South t()f the
winter.
The playwright wishes to thank the following people for their
imagination, whimsy, perseverance, and resourcefulness: her hushand. Thomas
Schworer, who created the art II)!' the OIiginal production of Gloria Duplex: Burke
Walker, Maty Helen Clarke, Coby ScheIdt, Jim Raghmd, Pat Wright, Terry
Gihson. and Brenda Peterson. In addition. Ms. Wells acknowledges the many [()lk
artists whose creativity lUlwittingly nourished Bud Joseph.
Rebecca Wells
Presents
by Rebecca Wells
An exotic workshop service for the Theatre
First produced by the Empty Space Theatre, Seattle, Washington
under the direction of Burke Walker
Cast
Gloria Duplex
Bud Joseph
Rev. Mother Willie Mae Felix
Lu Grem illion
Michelle Best
Carl Dean
Donna Thornton Marbury
Sharon Blane
The Paradise
Playboys
Piano
Drums
Guitar, Mando lin
Electric Bass
Fiddle
M ichael King
Maury Levine
.1ason Bailey
Peter Ban ish
Rebekah Stober
The play takes place in New Orleans at the Kitten Paradise Temple Lounge
on the edge of the French Quarter
There will be a twelve (12) minute intermission
Also this summer
Tempered
at Southern
PlayWorks:
Steel Cross by Lee Shackleford
At Bell Theatre
July 17-August2
Oh, Mr. Faulkner, Do You Write? starring John Maxwell July 27,
At UAB Town and Gown, Clark Theatre
Co. Aytch: Memoirs of a Confederate Soldier, Starring Bobby Funk, August 3
At UAB Town and Gown, Clark Theatre
Rebecca Wells is a novelist, actor and playwright who grew up on Bayou
Roberts in Central Louisiana, where French Catholic Louisiana meets Northern
Baptist Louisiana. Her first novel, Little Altars Evelywhere, won the Western
States Book Award for Fiction in 1992 and was a Literary Guild Alternate
Selection and Editor's Choice.
A reprint of Little Altars Evelywhere was
published by HarperCollins to coincide with the publication of her second novel,
Divine Secrets of the Yo-Yo Sisterhood, which has been described as "a
deliciously entertaining and ultinlately, deeply moving novel about the complex
bonds between a mother and her daughter."
To quote Tom Robbins, author of
Even Cowgirls get the Blues, Divine Secrets is "the sweet and sad and goofY
monkey dance of life, as performed by a bevy of unforgettable Southern Belles in a
verdant garden of moonlit prose. Poignantly coo-coo, the Ya-Yas (and their Petite
Ya-Yas) will prance, priss, ponder and party their way into your sincere affection."
Divine Secrets of the Yo-Yo Sisterhood was released in paperback by
HarperPerennial in April, 1997.
An accomplished actress, Wells has perfl)rnled in theaters throughout the
United States. Variety has called her acting "luminous ... funny, touching and
important."
As a playwright, Wells' play Splittin' Hairs (for which she also
created the leading role), was nominated for Showtime Televisions' Excellence in
American Theater Award. Her play, Gloria Duplex (for which she created the
title role) was hailed by the Seattle Post-IntelligenceI' as "one of the glories of the
decade."
A seasoned lecturer and creativity coach, Ms. Wells has taught her
workshop, "Learning to Compost: Writing nom the Heart"
throughout the
cOlUltry. Her teleplays include scripts for ABC and CBS. The subject of a West
Coast PBS documentary, Wells has received numerous awards including the
Washington
States Arts Conmussion
Playwright Fellowship.
Seattle Arts
Commission Original Works Fellowship, King County Fiction Fellowship, and
the Artists Tmst of Washington Fellowship in Literature, as well as the Artists
Tmst Fellowship Fellowslup in Theatre.
Ms. Wells lives on an island in Wasllington State's Puget Sound with her
husband and their cocker sp31uel, Lulu. She is currently at work on a novel based
on her play, Splittin' Hairs. Her fervent wish is to return to the South t()f the
winter.
The playwright wishes to thank the following people for their
imagination, whimsy, perseverance, and resourcefulness: her hushand. Thomas
Schworer, who created the art II)!' the OIiginal production of Gloria Duplex: Burke
Walker, Maty Helen Clarke, Coby ScheIdt, Jim Raghmd, Pat Wright, Terry
Gihson. and Brenda Peterson. In addition. Ms. Wells acknowledges the many [()lk
artists whose creativity lUlwittingly nourished Bud Joseph.
Production Staff
Director.
Musical Director
Choreographer/Movement
Coach
Set Design
Costume Design
Assistant Director/Stage Manager.
Light Board Operator..
Lighting Design
Spot Light Operator.
Fight Choreographer..
Vocal Coach
Technical Director.
Technical Coordinator
Assistant Technical Director.
Props Master..
Set Construction
Set Dressing
"-- ..
--------- _------------~----------~------._---_._-- -----_.--------..
A. Vastine Stabler
M ichael King
Bess Peterson
K C Schmidt
.Jane Klemens
Donna McN ider
;
David Crutcher
Tim Laruda
Dana Gilliland
Bobby Funk
Jill Balch
David Loggins
Russ Fredrikis
Timothy J. McGuire
Phillip Anderson
.Jennifer Kelley, Vincent Simons, Jason Kennah, Ian Sampson
Phillip Anderson, Michelle Best, Liz Best, Jason Kennah
......................... Kiersten Moore and Janet Wocken
---.-- -
--
--
---.
·
Costume Assistants
Kitten Paradise Logo
Pu bIici ty
Southern PlayWorks Brochure Layout.
Artistic Director for Southern PlayWorks
Assistants to the Artistic Director.
House Managers
Play
Presents
Angele Mete, Randi Bourdages and Gary Ivory
.Janet Wocken
··.····· ..H elen Hays
Tom Woffard
Vastine Stabler
Stephanie Collins and Donna McNider
Edie Moore and Nancy Hallmark
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Jeff Samford, John Hallum, Jessica Tyra, Cheryl Hall, LaDonna Smith, Ben Burford and
Dyna- Type, Delores Hydock, Monty Stabler Galleries, Jack Reiss, Rebecca Wells, Joyce
Whitten, Ba~bara Davis, Bragg Scroggins and the entire UAB Town and Gown Staff, Billy
Sheldon and the UAB Department of Theatre office staff, The Birmingham Festival Theatre
Board of Directors, Helen Hays and UAB Media Relations, The Birmingham News, The
Birmingham Post-Herald, The Montgomery Advertiser, Black & White, Kaleidoscope, UAB
Report, WZZK-FM, WBRC-TV, WBMG-TV, WTTO-TV, WAPI-FM, WMJJ-AM, WBHMFM, WYDE-AM and WAPI-FM.
an exotic worship service for theatre
by
REBECCA WELLS
,
I
I
•••••••••••••••••••••••••••
•
•
•
Carl would like to thank Alicia Yelverton, his true "buddy soul leaf' .•
Donna M.-T. would like to thank Molly Stevens and John Marbury, Jr.
•
From Michelle: Thanks to my group, Morris, Bess, Jane, Mom, Dad, Joe, •
•
•
especially Liz, and everyone else who helped make this transition from
Michelle to "Gloria" a smooth one. I love you all. Donna, Carl and
.,
Sharon - I couldn't have done it without you .•
I
II
I
I
•
•
I
i
I
•••••••••••••••••••••••••••
I
i
I
I
Highland Booksmith will be selling books at all
Southern PlayWorks venues
L
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